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TIL Henry Ford believed ethanol was the future of fuel and said: “There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.”

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neGeG TIL A soviet defector predicted the current state of America 40 years ago (cultural decline, marxism, socialism) It was all carefully planned. "Our goal was to demoralize people so completely that they would deny fact, of course these people would be purged once the socialist goal was accomplished"
xDPk TIL that if you played the actual, framed golden record awarded to artists, it will probably play a completely different album than the one the award is for.
lo91B TIL of ASMR - like a shiver - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
ADxLw TIL of Planet Nine - A hypothetical, 10x Earth-sized planet within our solar system that orbits around the sun every 15k years. This hypothesis is currently supported by Jim Green, director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and professor Tom Levenson of MIT.
4k9ja TIL that if you dug a hole anywhere in the united states through the center of the Earth, you'd end up in the Indian/Arctic ocean